How many of us actually manage cookies while browsing the web, and what does that mean for our privacy online?

"Police blotter" is a weekly CNET News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and ...

The internet’s largest gatekeepers have had it with cookies, and they’re waging a war to wipe them off the face of the web. No company is more at the forefront of this uprising than Google, which ...

Restrictions on how websites and advertisers track us around the web are coming, because web browsers—which already block the most invasive types of cookies by default—are cracking down. A cookie is a ...

A typical web page can have many dozens of cookies (even hundreds, in some cases), which track your behavior for everyone from advertisers to developers–a practice also known as design optimization.

Ever visit one website and when you go to a completely different website, an ad pops up for what you just browsed for? Well, that’s not your imagination. Your browsing activity was tracked across the ...

California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...

America Online, the nation’s largest Internet service provider, plans to begin using anonymous Web bugs and cookies for the first time to enable the company to better target advertisements to its ...

UK websites contain an average of 14 cookies per page, the majority of which belong to third parties, according to a new report. Cookies are small sections of code that websites put on a user’s ...

Google will join Safari and Firefox in blocking third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser. However, unlike those browsers (which have already started blocking them by default), Google intends to ...